Hey Folks,
Has anyone out there bought any of the Purism devices, especially the
phone (Librem 5) or the tablet (Librem 11)? I'm interested to hear your
experiences.
My old Galaxy S5 with replaceable battery and headphone jack is still
going strong but is about to be made obsolete by the 3G
Hi folks,
Just in case you hadn't seen the announcement, ticket are now on sale
for the Everything Open conference in Melbourne 14-16 March 2023.
There's an earlybird discount of $100 while stocks last. I've just
bought my ticket, so hope to see you there!
https://2023.everythingopen.au/
Re
Just an update to say that this X200 now has a new home. :)
On 23/10/21 12:50 pm, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm tidying up here and have a Lenovo X200 with Coreboot I'm looking to
sell for $20 plus postage (likely less than $15).
- well used, but in good working order
Hi Folks,
I'm tidying up here and have a Lenovo X200 with Coreboot I'm looking to
sell for $20 plus postage (likely less than $15).
- well used, but in good working order
- 4GB RAM
- Coreboot installed
- free software-compatible Atheros mini-pci wifi card installed
- includes power adaptor
- B
On 10/4/20 10:49 am, Michael Verrenkamp wrote:
> FSM Apr 16th —Staying connected with Free Software —Signal and Jitsi
I'm sorry I missed this Michael, hope it went well! I've finally managed
to get Jitsi Meet going on Guix System too, which is wonderful.
I've also just created a new Matrix channe
O
Business Portal.
The representative told me that there's no plans to move my.gov.au to
MyGovID login for the foreseeable future.
So that solves my issues for now, but I expect it's only a matter of
time before MyGovID gets more widely rolled out.
Regards,
Ben
On 31/3/20 11:44 am,
o be heard and they
are certainly listening.
Regards,
Ben
On 24/3/20 5:44 pm, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've just sent a letter to the Commissioner of Taxation about the
> rollout of MyGovID as the only way to log in to the ATO Business Portal.
> This is attached
this clever human wrote, that
> basically pretends to be the MyGovID app for the purposes of set-up, and
> gives you a regular QR-code to feed to your TOTP app:
> https://github.com/abrasive/mygov-totp-enroll
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 17:44, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> Hi
Hi Folks,
I've just sent a letter to the Commissioner of Taxation about the
rollout of MyGovID as the only way to log in to the ATO Business Portal.
This is attached in case there are any business owners who I can
encourage to also speak out.
Essentially the ATO is switching off the nice email/pa
Hi Folks,
I won't be able to make it to FSM tonight unfortunately, but given
you'll be touching on RMS's resignation, I'd encourage you to read this
post from Bradley Kuhn (ex. FSF board member) yesterday before the meeting:
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
The whole ordeal cam
event/10088280-a/contribute-to-free-and-open-source-software-workshop
Cheers,
Ben
Ben Sturmfels
Sturm Software Engineering
www.sturm.com.au
+61 3 9024 2467
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi FSM folks,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that Damien and I are organising a communi
Hi FSM folks,
Just wanted to let you know that Damien and I are organising a community
event for the Digital Innovation Festival in Ballarat that you or
someone you know might be interested in.
https://dif.vic.gov.au/event/10088280-a/contribute-to-free-and-open-source-software-workshop
It's a me
hese prices.
Thanks!
--
Ben Sturmfels
Director at Sturm Software Engineering
www.sturm.com.au
+61 3 9024 2467
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Hi Folks,
I'm getting into this Mastodon thing, but it'd be much more interesting
if I could follow a few more people I know. Anyone care to reply with
their Mastodon address?
I'm @bensturmfels@mastodon.social.
Cheers!
Ben
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mailing list signup issues]
The Trove search engine provides access to content from Galleries,
Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) and is a rich and deep source of
Australian history and culture covering content such as newspap
On 08/03/17 12:23, Russell Coker wrote:
> This isn't really news. After Snowden's information this is something most
> people expected.
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/assange-man-in-the-news/512243/
>
> Also remember that Assange seems to be a Russian agent.
Hi Russell
On 02/03/17 09:58, Alex Fraser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free
> software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it,
> and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone
> recommend a model?
Hi Folks,
My much-loved Libreboot X60 laptop is looking for a new home, so if
you're looking to get started with Libreboot, this could be for you.
I've now upgraded to an X200, but used this device for several years as
my secondary machine, including presenting on it at LibrePlanet 2015.
Happy to
Hi Folks,
Is there anyone else here on either Diaspora or Pump.io social networks?
I'm trying Diaspora for the first time and I need some friends!
Diaspora:
stumb...@diasporabrazil.org
Pump.io:
stumb...@identi.ca
Cheers,
Ben
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Hi Folks,
Congrats to our new 2016-2017 committee, Ben Minerds (Pres), Michael Verrenkamp
(Vice Pres), Damien Zammit (Secretary) and Ben Finney (Treasurer)!
Again big thanks to the other members of our previous committee Scott Junner,
Ben Minerds and Ben Finney. It's been a very productive year.
t;
> Scott
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ben Finney <
> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On 14-Apr-2016, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>>
>>> In addition to our regular Gnews, we'll also be holding a brief
>>> committee election f
Hi Folks,
Sounds like we're much closer to the TPP signing than I realised -
Australia is planned to sign on 3 Feb. Please add your name to the
following online petition if you have a moment:
http://action.sumofus.org/a/australia-tpp/
Cheers,
Ben
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On 27/07/15 21:20, Michael Verrenkamp wrote:
> I came across this about 2 weeks back, it is Chris the CEO of Think
> pengin doing an interview with 'Freedoms Phoenix'. It shows how clear
> the message can be and he handles himself very well. The interview
> starts at about the 1 hour mark.
>
> It
Hi Folks,
Bonnie wrote to say that Melb Django School began their first of 9 weeks
of free-of-charge Django classes last Thursday. If you know a little
Python, you might want to take a look at their website:
http://www.meetup.com/MelbDjango/events/223096881/
Regards,
Ben
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Hi Folks,
Following Scott's talk on free software social networks, I'd like to
encourage people to try Pump.io. http://pump.io/
I find it a great way to keep up with a range of people in the free
software community. I use a desktop client called Pumpa. I'm
stumb...@identi.ca.
I don't run a serve
Hi Folks,
I forgot to post the link to the video of my Emacs workshop at
LibrePlanet. Here it is if you're interested:
http://stumbles.id.au/rock-your-emacs-video-from-libreplanet.html
Cheers,
Ben
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On 27/04/15 07:16, Ben M wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the feedback for our "Day Against DRM" letter to Mozilla. I
> have made a new revision based on that and have posted it to the wiki.
> There's still about a week to go so any further feedback or
> refinements welcome.
>
> http://freesoftwar
On 28/04/15 16:09, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Our first (fully free software) audio conference was amusingly
> chaotic. We're looking forward to lots of fun free software activities
> this year.
I should clarify - the chaos was of course having 3 people called Ben,
not from using fully
Hi Folks,
Free Software Melbourne is awesome because people like Adam Bolte and
Andrew Spiers make it so. We thank you both for your time and effort
organising the monthly meetups, finding interesting speakers, running
Software Freedom Day, organising campaigns, hosting games nights and
much more.
On 10/03/15 14:16, Scott Junner wrote:
> It appears that yorkbutterfactory.com is available on the 23rd May But not
> the Saturday before.
>
> Can we nail down some details so I can send him information? Probably best
> to create the Meetup Page for the event before hand. Guy I spoke to seemed
> t
Hi Folks,
I'm heading off to LibrePlanet in Boston so won't be at the upcoming
meeting, but I'd like to nominate for President in the elections.
It's been a great last 12 months for Free Software Melbourne - very
successful Software Freedom Day, lots of interesting meet-ups and
dinners, some inte
On 06/03/15 18:44, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> I'd be very happy to come along to talk at LUV or if dates don't work
>> out (being in Ballarat), I'm sure I could find someone to. I know that
>> LUV is organised many mo
On 23/02/15 15:05, Andrew Pam wrote:
> As current president of LUV, it occurred to me that the interests of the
> Melbourne Free Software Interest Group overlap with ours to some degree.
> Are there any members of the Free Software group that would be
> interested in giving a talk to LUV this year
On 20/02/15 13:12, Scott Junner wrote:
> And lastly on the topic of workshops for getting started contributing to
> free software projects. Yes please. Give me one job to do to that will get
> that ball rolling. Coz I wants it. There are things I would like to
> contribute to but don't know where
This sounds like a fantastic topic for our Feb meet up! Noah could we
pencil you in to talk a little about your experiences? Doesn't need to
be anything formal, but you have the very valuable perspective from
inside a school. I'm sure we'll have a few parents with school aged kids
(or soon to be) t
On 14/05/14 16:40, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Dale Dickins has kindly offered to lend us her Lamassu Bitcoin vending
> machine (https://lamassu.is/) tomorrow night if anyone is available to
> swing past The Hub to pick it up, and drop it back Friday.
> The machine is fairly compact: 3
Dale Dickins has kindly offered to lend us her Lamassu Bitcoin vending
machine (https://lamassu.is/) tomorrow night if anyone is available to
swing past The Hub to pick it up, and drop it back Friday.
The Hub is on the corner of Bourke and Collins Street:
http://hubaustralia.com/contact/melbourne/
. The newly elected committee is:
President: Adam Bolte
Vice President: Andrew Spiers
Secretary: Ben Sturmfels
Treasurer: Ben Finney
Our next election will be March 2015.
Meet-up day of the week
---
We also discussed the possibility of varying the meet-up day to allow
othe
On 21/06/13 21:57, Sven@GMX wrote:
> I am proudly looking forward to meet you in July again after a long
> time. The mid-month Raspberry Jam meetings (RMIT building 80) I went for
> the past 3 month were held the same Thursday of the month but was moved
> to the last Thursday. I dont think there w
Hi Folks,
Just a quick reminder that the Free Software Melbourne discussion group
is on tomorrow evening (Thursday 20 June). Look forward to seeing you!
Regards,
Ben
On 12/06/13 12:07, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>
> Free Software Melbourne discussion
"Lev Lafayette" writes:
> Is the Melbourne Free Software Group interesting in taking up the role of
> organising Software Freedom Day this year?
>
> LUV has done it a few years in succession now, but it's really something
> that should be in the domain of Melbourne FS.
Thanks for mentioning this
Hi Free Software Lovers,
I'm looking forward to seeing you again next Thursday 20 June for our
discussion group. This month we'll be looking at some hardware
purpose-designed for compatibility with free software. Yay! We'll also
be discussing the H-Node hardware database (details below).
I'm deli
Hi Folks,
This month's gathering will be dinner at Classic Curry, so hope to see
you there!
Again, sorry for the late notice.
Regards,
Ben
--
Free Software Melbourne Dinner
--
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Classic Curry Restaurant
597 Elizabeth
Hi Folks,
Our monthly discussion group is on this Thursday 18 April. Look forward
to seeing you there!
Free Software Melbourne discussion group
Thursday 21 March, 6-9pm
VPAC Head Office Training Room (see website)
their voice or use OpenPGP to send the shared password. Having to
use OpenPGP would somewhat defeat the purpose of this quick and
lightweight security feature though.
Regards,
Ben
On 24/03/13 16:13, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Great to see you all last Thursday. Here's a
n movie later this year:
http://melbourneblender.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/february-meeting-notes-mbs-open-movie-project/
Regards,
Ben
On 19/03/13 15:46, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Sorry for the late announcement. I'm looking forward to seeing you all
> this Thursday night f
On 19/03/13 22:20, Chris Samuel wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 19/03/13 15:46, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>
>> I had an amazing experience this week; a video call using free software
>> that worked beautifully.
>
> Jitsi by some chance?
Jitsi to Empathy actually; both o
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the late announcement. I'm looking forward to seeing you all
this Thursday night for Free Software Melbourne discussion group and
dinner.
I had an amazing experience this week; a video call using free software
that worked beautifully. It's been a long wait for a free software
Hi Folks,
The FSF's annual conference, LibrePlanet, is coming up on 23-24 March.
If, like me, you wish you were there, you'll be glad to know that they
plan to have a live video feed:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Watch_Live
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Program
The prog
Hi Folks,
Just a quick reminder that our free software games night is tomorrow
night at 6pm.
Alex Fraser has been working very hard on his own free software game,
Cargo. Development is currently top secret, but he's nearing a release.
I'm hoping he'll be able to give us a sneak-peek.
The Liberat
Hi Folks,
We had such a great time at the September free software games night that
we're doing it again this Thursday. Please come along and join us!
Regards,
Ben
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Thursday 21 February, 6-
Hi Folks,
Follow the successful "Free Software Activism" meetup at LCA 2013 last
week, we've started a mailing list for discussion amongst Australian and
New Zealand free software activists. Please feel free join up if that
sounds like your thing:
http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailm
On 14/01/13 13:36, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
This Thursday we're holding our Free Software Melbourne barbeque.
Everyone is welcome, especially if you haven't been along before.
The forecast is 39 degrees in Melbourne today. We're still planning to
go ahead ahead with the barbeque,
Hi Folks,
This Thursday we're holding our Free Software Melbourne barbeque.
Everyone is welcome, especially if you haven't been along before.
Look forward to seeing you!
Regards,
Ben
Free Software Melbourne barbeque
Thur 17 Jan
Hi Folks,
Back on the 15 November, we had two great talks by Adam Bolte and
Ben Finney on running free software network services from home and
privacy on the web respectively. Thanks very much to Adam and Ben.
As an experiment to allow us to reach a wider audience, we recorded both
the audio and
Hi Folks,
Join us for Free Software Melbourne discussion group this Thursday
night. We'll hear about Adam's experiments in running his own free
software network services and Ben F. will teach us about Super Cookies.
I'll also be baking some Super Cookies. Yum.
Look forward to seeing you!
Regards
ly issue a cease and desist they must be
> worried about something (?DRM?).
>
> Kind regards,
> K.
>
> On 27/10/12 03:24, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Thanks for coming along to the discussion group on the 18 October! Notes
>> are below.
>>
Hi Folks,
Thanks for coming along to the discussion group on the 18 October! Notes
are below.
The next discussion group is on 15 November. Adam Bolte will be telling
us about his explorations in running free software network services from
home, including email, chat, microblogging, code hosting a
On 19/10/12 10:54, Ben Finney wrote:
> Would it be a good idea for us to pool a bunch of money and sponsor GNU
> MediaGoblin, with a single large donation in the name of Free Software
> Melbourne?
This is a great idea! Donations are the best way to contribute to free
software if you earn a comfor
ening was
successful.
Regards,
Ben
On 18/10/12 15:42, DanyJ wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:52:49 +1100
> Ben Sturmfels wrote:Ben Sturmfels
> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben
>
> I'd like to come down to that meeting.
>
> Can I plz ask that the eTax discussion be first - as I am
On 16/10/12 10:04, Adam Bolte wrote:
> If you have an actual MediaGoblin server configured, it would probably
> be neat to demo it. Might also be an opportunity to talk about/demo
> StatusNet, XMPP and any other free federated services we can think of,
> time permitting.
Sure, I'm running a perso
On 16/10/12 08:52, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>
> Free Software Melbourne discussion group
>
>
> Thursday 20 September, 6-9pm
> VPAC Head Office Training Room (see website)
> http://www.freesoftwa
Hi Folks,
October already! Wow, this month has certainly crept up on me. I'm
looking forward to another Free Software Melbourne discussion group and
dinner this Thursday, same time same place. Hope to see you there!
Regards,
Ben
Free Software Melbourne di
Hi Folks,
GNU MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing system for images,
video, and audio. I've found it very useful for hosting my own photos.
The goblins are running a crowd-funding campaign to add some advanced
features like decentralisation as well as simpler installation and
administ
Hi Folks,
I'm looking forward to the games night tomorrow night. Everyone is
welcome, especially those who don't regularly play games. You'll
probably still beat me!
Here's a starting list of games if you'd like to download any before
coming along. We'll also have copies on hand.
http://www.free
Hi Free Software Lovers,
Hope you enjoyed Software Freedom Day as much as I did. We heard some
exceptional talks and saw over 80 people in attendance at one point
during the morning. A fantastic result, particularly thanks to the hard
work of the Linux Users Victoria committee.
Since too much fre
Ben Finney writes:
> Howdy all,
>
> A new event, the CryptoParty, is being organised for sharing and
> teaching everyone about secure communications.
Sounds like a great event. Shame I won't be able to make it.
Ben F, would you mind making a brief mention to the attendees that the
technology th
Adam Bolte writes:
> If my above assumptions are correct, why treat graphics driver firmware
> specially? I'm certainly not saying it's wrong to demand free firmware,
> however I'm curious why some firmware is treated differently. Is it because
> one lives in your filesystem on your HDD, but the
Adam Bolte writes:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:50:00PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps
>> there are other free software organisations that would benefit more
>> from a donation right now. I'm thi
A friend pointed out this recent review on what we refer to as DRM
(Digital Restrictions Management):
http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultationsreformsandreviews/Pages/ReviewofTechnologicalProtectionMeasureexceptionsmadeundertheCopyrightAct1968.aspx
The submission period has just closed, but I figured it
Hi Folks,
You'll be please to know that our Sydney correspondent Matt Giuca joined
Ben Finney, Ben's friend Pete and I in the Australian Python
conference's "codewars" programming event on Friday night. Our team,
named "Free Software Melbourne", beat off around a dozen other teams
(including many
On 20/07/12 13:14, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
At last night's discussion group, I mentioned that I'd like to see us
support the FSF's statement on Restricted Boot vs Secure Boot:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement
If anyone has any thoug
Hi Folks,
At the last meeting I mentioned that I might be interested in chipping
in for one of the Ouya [1] consoles as a way to support the development
of the project.
A console with 4 controllers shipped to Australia would be $209 USD [2].
I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales thou
Hi Folks,
At last night's discussion group, I mentioned that I'd like to see us
support the FSF's statement on Restricted Boot vs Secure Boot:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement
If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. Otherwise I'll email the
FSF this w
Hi Folks,
Here's a petition calling for transparency in the negotiation of the TPP
agreement. I'd encourage you to take a look:
http://stopthetrap.net/
You may be aware that TPP is a trade agreement currently being
negotiated in secret by governments around the world. Brett Smith's
recent t
Thanks for the patent related discussion folks. I'll look forward to
telling you about the presentation I made in Sydney, hopefully at the
next Free Software Melbourne meeting.
Can I suggest taking further patent discussion to the End Software
Patents Australia list? That way others can be inv
Hi Folks,
I've just uploaded the video of Brett Smith's talk to our website:
http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/2012/brett-smith-talk/
Thanks to Alex and Chris for recording the video. Despite technical
problems problems, they managed to catch pretty well the entire talk
between their two cameras. I
Hi Folks,
I've just migrated the Free Software Melbourne et al. mailing lists to a
new server. Please email me directly if you notice any problems.
Sorry if you received two copies of your daily digest --- I had both
systems running together for a short time.
Regards,
Ben
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Hi Folks,
We're running a small FSF fundraising dinner following the talk on Monday.
To attend, register here:
http://apps.freesoftware.asn.au/invite/brett-smith-dinner/
Places are limited to 12 people. Come along and talk to Brett about his
activism and work in free software.
Regards,
Ben
Hi Folks,
I'm really excited about Brett Smith's talk this Monday 5 March at
6pm. Don't forget to register:
http://apps.freesoftware.asn.au/invite/brett-smith-fsf/
Why not use this talk as a way to introduce people to free software? Let
Brett do the hard work of explaining for you!
While broadc
On 28/02/12 08:25, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
We're very excited to be able to host a public lecture by FSF's Brett
Smith this coming Monday 5 March at 6pm.
FYI, the talk venue has changed (bigger), and it is now finalised:
University of Melbourne, Theatre 1, ICT Building, Ba
Hi Folks,
We're very excited to be able to host a public lecture by FSF's Brett
Smith this coming Monday 5 March at 6pm.
Brett Smith is in Melbourne to talk to government negotiators about the
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the impact on free
software. This public lecture will
On 25/02/12 11:19, Bianca Gibson wrote:
Here's the mystery event (I'm guessing).
Yes, Brett Smith of FSF is our mystery event! :)
The reason it was a mystery was, firstly, Brett and I spoke for the
first time last Thursday - we didn't know what shape the event might
take or even if he was de
On 24/02/12 10:00, Bianca Gibson wrote:
Mm, maybe those notes should go on the geek feminism wiki as well? Where
they are now people who would be interested are probably not going to find
them.
Hi Bianca,
Would you mind summarising these notes and adding the revelant points to
the Geek Femini
On 23/02/12 22:29, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
One recommendation discussed was to speak up if you notice bad behavior. This
is especially important for the blokes who can have significant influence in
these situations.
Notes from the discussion:
http://wiki.freesoftware.asn.au/encouragingWomen
A
Hi Folks,
At the bottom of the "Free software meeting wrap up" email, I mentioned
a tentative special event coming up, but gave you the wrong date.
Please pencil in "Mystery Free Software Event" on the evening of Monday
5th March (not 6th March sorry). We have a special international guest
in to
On 23/02/12 22:29, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
One recommendation discussed was to speak up if you notice bad behavior. This
is especially important for the blokes who can have significant influence in
these situations.
Additionally, Amanda suggests that anyone looking for more information
should
Hi Folks,
I just wanted to say a great big THANKS! to everyone who came along to
the Free Software Melbourne discussion group last Thursday on
encouraging women in free software. We had 16 people, our highest yet
and over a third women. We heard some really interesting stories and
ideas, which con
Just a quick reminder about the Free Software Melbourne discussion group
tonight 6pm. Haven't attended before? Please come along!
http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
We're also just deciding on a single short article for pre-reading to
help set the scene. Will let you know in the next few day
On 13/02/12 12:45, Matt Giuca wrote:
Having a shorter copyright term, but keeping the long term for free
software would mean that the above clause is no longer true. In this world,
I would have certain freedoms with proprietary software that I would not
have with GPL software. For example, I woul
On 11/02/12 16:15, Bianca Gibson wrote:
I've never been to their Melbourne Central one, so I have no idea at all. I
guess we can take a count on the mailing list and add and an estimate of
extras and book, then call to correct around the start of the meeting once
we have a clearer idea of numbers
On 12/02/12 12:05, Matt Giuca wrote:
I thought that there was a really great idea from a commenter at the end
of your talk whereby free software would be considered by law 'in the
public interest' and becomes except from applying to patent lawsuits at all.
Not only would this meet our goals of b
On 10/02/12 21:52, Matt Giuca wrote:
Well spoken, Ben. What was with the hovercraft part at the start?
Thanks Matt!
Well, I did like drawing hovercrafts when I was little and I needed a
set up for a joke about Internet Explorer. I thought it was funny anyway. ;)
Hi Folks,
The video from my recent talk "Ending Software Patents in Australia" is
available.
First enable patent-unencumbered WebM video for YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Then the video is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzz-w55D9vM
Alternatively:
http://mirror.interno
Hi Folks,
The first Free Software Melbourne discussion group is on this Thursday
16 February. Look forward to seeing you there!
--
Melbourne Free Software Interest Group
--
Thursday 16 February, 6pm (please arrive 10 mins
Hi Folks,
I noticed a few messages in the recent discussion were a bit hard to
read because they were in HTML.
I've just flicked a few switches in the mailing list settings that
should strip off or convert the HTML parts. Let me know if you notice
any problems as I'm not particularly experie
On 14/01/12 02:11, George Patterson wrote:
Neither subtle nor overt harassment should not be tolerated. Name
calling or stating that someone's argument doesn't matter is wrong,
perhaps there is something in the person argument or some side of it
that you haven't considered. In the recent past, I
On 14/01/12 11:14, Russell Coker wrote:
Could Les please be unsubscribed until he fixes his mail server.
Hi Russell,
I've been in touch with Les and the auto-replies have been fixed.
If there are any further problems. Please contact Les cs.mu.oz.au> and CC me.
Regards,
Ben
On 25/01/12 13:52, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
free-software-b...@lists.softwarefreeom.com.au
http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-bris
Great work Fraser for getting this group started!
Minor correction, there's a 'd' missing in the above email. Should be:
free-softw
On 15/01/12 12:42, Dennis K wrote:
I never said there was no sexism at all. Obviously, such things like
sexism and racism, do exist. I did say however, that even if they
didn't really exist in certain areas, there is a vested interest in
combating it, as some people professionally do this. No
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